If that's what you're eating every day, or if it's fairly representative of what you're eating and how much you're eating - then yes!!

Breakfast: porridge. No biscuits. As much coffee as you like.Lunch: do away with crumbed/fried. Can you switch to steamed fish occasionally or roast chicken?Dinner - sounds great.Dessert. Ahem. Skip this.

I suppose I developed this stupid philosophy of thinking if I cut out the "real food" I could eat more "crap" and not put on any weight. I love sugar I know low carbing works but I just can't stick to it

Have you thought about weightwatchers? Even if you don't want to do the program, you might find the books an eye-opener. If you added up all the points you ate in a day, you would be astonished. The food you're eating is low satisfaction, high points - so that's why you aren't losing any weight, but probably still are starving!

Today is probably not a good example, as we've had family over so I've gone over my daily points and eaten into my weekly ones. But that's the beauty of it. You can! So you don't feel deprived. I've lost nearly a stone since Easter, which doesn't sound a lot, but if you knew how long that bloody stone has been hanging around...

Replace the biscuits first thing with porridge, replace other biscuits & skips with fruit.

Replace the snickers icecream bar with raspberries/strawberries/whatever yummy fruit you can get with a dollop of low fat yoghurt.

If you don't have time for porridge first thing, pick up some fruisli/oat bars, have one with a banana (not great, but better than biscuits!!!).

Drink your coffee black without sugar.

Cut out the crap and eat real food! It'll keep you feeling full for longer. (Am struggling to do this myself BTW - I've got a big bakewell tart from the original shop in Bakewell sat in my kitchen talking to me, v kind of MIL to get it for me, but it's not helping my resolve...)

Yr consuming a lot of fat arnt you? Your not being fulfilled at all. Your bound to be staving after two biscuits for breakfast you need to either eat a bowl of cereal (no sugar) or go for the non carb - bacon, egg & toms.

You seem to be eating two dinners. Not a lunch and dinner. Why are you eating a frozen fatty lunch? Bound to be loads of fat and calories in that. Change to plain fish/chicken/small sandwich or salad. Your following all this fat & carbs with a packet of crisps. (youget/fruit). Your tea is the best meal but is it homemade or packet as these couscous meals can contain rubbish - make it all yourself.

Icecream after meals is reserved for children or weekends sorry. More fat, little nutrician here at all.

No supper. You really dont need the calories do you? 3 good meals a day should suffice! However I do have a chunk of quality dark chocolate and the better the chocolate the less you eat!

Its mostly refined carbs, fat & sugar. I'm not a great breakfast person but find if I bring in my home made yoghurt with granola and honey then I eat that around 9-9.30 at work. Anything breaded or battered is really high in calories and fat, you would be much better having say soup and a salad. Quite right to have some treats but try to limit it to something small say a jaffa cake

How are your energy levels? I suspect they might be quite low due to the refined sugar.

Cut the processed food. I'm not a fan of weightwatchers as although it does encourage portion control IMO still too much emphasis of processed stuff.

The biscuits could be around 70 calories each - 8 a day (2 breakfast and 6 evening) is 500 calories. The snickers ice cream is 250.

Lunch is probably 400 assuming no salad dressing, dinner maybe another 500 depending on size of cous-cous. Skips are 90.

So assuming the coffee doesn't contain sugar etc thats 1750 which shouldn't make you fat, but calories not all created equal you are eating too much processed food, not enough fruit and vegetables, too much sugar.

Drop the skips - have an apple or two.Drop the snickers - have a fruit yoghurt.Drop the biscuits - have eggs for breakfastMake lunchtime chicken fillets in griddle pan no breadcrumbs.Watch size of couscous.